”Resolved, That we regard the attempt, both of the Legislature of this State and the friends of Kentucky University, to maintain that institution at the expense of the colored common-school system of Kentucky, as an act unjust to the colored people of this Commonwealth, unworthy of the chivalry of the age, and as an act deserving the execration of a generous and magnanimous people.
“Resolved, That we urge the friends of humanity in Congress to defeat the bill now pending in the Senate of the United States, unless it can be so modified as to render futile all efforts of the enemies of the colored common-school system to misapply the aforesaid funds.”
—At a meeting held in Baltimore, March 3d, under the auspices of the P. E. Board of Missions, it was stated that there are in the South thirty-seven chapels for colored worshippers of that denomination, fifty-seven clergymen and teachers (five of whom are colored) and one colored evangelist.
—In this Assembly it was held that of the 5,000,000 colored people, one-third had, since the war, risen to a higher civilization and a higher life; one-third had gone down to a lower plane, and one-third were left victims of circumstances. If this last estimate be correct, the upper third will work more and more effectually upon the lower two-thirds to lift them to its level.
INDIANS.
—General Howard testified the other day, as the result of his personal observation among the Indians, that “wherever there has been faithful teaching of the Scriptures, there have been most abundant and remunerative results in civilization.”
—The representatives of the Five Nations, in the Indian Territory, in their memorial to Congress, opposing the transfer of the Indian Bureau to the War Department, appeal to the history of the more than half century in which that department had complete control of the Indian affairs. After setting forth the evils connected with that period, they say, “May God spare us, and our race, from even the possibility of ever again witnessing the recurrence of such scenes.”